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Article: Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan. By Craig L. Symonds. Library of Naval Biography. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 274. $32.95, ISBN 1-55750-844-5.)
Franklin Buchanan joined the U.S. Navy at age fourteen and seems to have been involved in almost every significant naval action and development during his fifty-year-long career. He went to sea on board several of the Navy's earliest steam-driven warships, was the first to charge ashore at Tuxpan during the war with Mexico, became the first American official to set foot in Japan, was the first officer to pilot a U.S. warship up the Yangtze River, and served as the ...